I went up to town and picked up the car on the trailer today. That cost me $89 to confirm what the service desk manager suspected. The engine was built faulty, and overheats because of the problem with the block. I am not sure of the specifics, but what it results in is Ford recommending that the owner do a long block engine replacement, which is to say the engine block and heads. Amazingly the cost is estimated at $9,000.00. They say the new block is corrected, but come on, the engine was meant to be right when it was new. How am I to know that another new engine is right this time? I think not. I am not buying Ford again after this crap. The car has fewer than 140,000 miles on it. It was okay till the engine started overheating on us when we took that drive to Wyoming. It has been giving us troubles since. Yeah, I am done with Ford.
As whatever car we get after this is going to be driven by my daughter, I am thinking something like a Subaru. I like the 4×4 or AWD that every Subaru has. Looking through the used ones they seem to run for a few hundred-thousand miles. We want economical too. I would like to have something we can do a little travelling with. It’d be nice to get out and see some of the country with the kids.
Anyway, I brought the car home, and we will clean out the personal belongings then send it off to the salvage yard. I think I would like to put a note in it saying what is wrong with it. It would not be good for someone to come along and pick the engine when it is so badly built. I hope we can get it turned in by Monday.